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Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 AM

Sympathy for Charles Graner

No one from the Bush administration has been held accountable for torture. But the guard from Abu Ghraib prison is still behind bars, and his family wants to know why.

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 11:07 AM

    No Sympathy

    Graner is a torturer. He got busted and convicted. The torture started at the top? So what. Graner still carried out the most heinous acts against other human beings. Bush and the rest should be convicted as well, but we know it does not work this way.

    That's no excuse however to let Graner out.

    His prison existence is torturous now? Tell that story to the millions of men and women in US prisons today-- many inside for mere drug busts or nasty three strikes laws.

    No Sympathy. If he wants out them he needs to speak out, blow the whistle and call for abolition of torture and the international prison system overall. Then perhaps we let the healing begin.

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